ASEPTIC Mnemonic for the Mental Status Examination (MSE) A - Appearance: Hygiene, clothing, grooming, physical abnormalities S - Speech: Rate, rhythm, tone, volume, fluency, slurring E - Emotion: Mood (subjective reported) and Affect (observed emotional state) P - Perceptions: Auditory / visual hallucinations T - Thoughts: Content (delusions, obsessions, SI/HI), Process (coherence, organization, tangentiality) I - Insight: Understanding and Judgement C - Cognition: Orientation, attention, memory, executive function #ASEPTIC #Mnemonic #Mental #Status #Examination #MSE #Psychiatry #Diagnosis
